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An Invitation to Serve Anyway
I am living one of the busiest seasons of my life right now. As we...
August 2012
August 29, 2012
{This Sacred Everyday} Andrea Palpant Dilley
Andrea Palpant Dilley has led the writer's group I've been part of at my church...
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July 16, 2012
When Prayer is Everything
It's Sunday and I’m sitting on the very last row of a jet moving thousands...
May 2012
May 29, 2012
Thankful Tuesday: Memorial Day Edition
Parents who will drive eight hours and spend money on a hotel room on the...
May 09, 2012
{Practicing Benedict} The Good Spirit
“It is easy to recognize the bitter spirit of wickedness which creates a barrier to...
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January 11, 2012
{Practicing Benedict} Seven Times a Day
"The words of the Psalm are: I have uttered your praises seven times during the...
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{Practicing Benedict} The God who comes
Welcome to Mama:Monk’s weekly Wednesday series examining St. Benedict’s Rule and what it has meant to me...
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October 03, 2011
Big Things
There’s a phrase I hate in the Christian subculture. And it’s one I haven’t heard...
September 2011
September 06, 2011
God’s Deepening Life in Me, Part 2 (aka: All is Balance, All is Gift)
“In everyday life, then, we must hold ourselves in balance before all created gifts insofar...
August 2011
August 18, 2011
Are we raising our children alone?
Last night I stumbled on Jennifer Fulwiler's recent post, "Stay-at-Home Moms Need Help" on the...
August 18, 2011
Are we raising our children alone?
Last night I stumbled on Jennifer Fulwiler's recent post, "Stay-at-Home Moms Need Help" on the...
May 2011
May 09, 2011
What is true.
This is what my husband brought to my bed yesterday morning. He knows that I...
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April 28, 2011
Sisyphus and Motherhood and Coffee
Yesterday morning I woke to a quiet (and sort of creepy) almost three-year-old standing beside...
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February 07, 2011
Confessing Fear
Yesterday during time of confession in our worship service, I ran my mind over my...
October 2010
October 25, 2010
Stones Splitting
When I sat in front of my spiritual director last Friday, trying to relay to...
October 19, 2010
Boys and Airports
When I packed for the cross country drive that would haul me from Texas, the...
September 2010
September 17, 2010
How not to be ferocious with myself.
This past week I managed to pull a typical Micha move. I’m not naturally organized....
August 2010
August 25, 2010
Loving the City
Yesterday I looked at an apartment I adored in Sausalito, a beautiful, quaint little fishing...
July 2010
July 22, 2010
What’s gonna work? TEAMWORK!
If you don’t automatically start singing the theme song to Wonder Pets when you read...
July 02, 2010
Motherhood: A Blog Fight, a Culture War, and Grace
This week my brother, Jason Boyett, asked me to guest post on his blog, O...
May 2010
May 04, 2010
The Oil Spill? I’m Guilty.
I can’t stop thinking about the oil spill today. Yesterday, I read this blog post...
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April 22, 2010
Tree Roots
If you had asked me ten years ago which of my brothers would be running...
April 15, 2010
Pied Beauty: The Grouch Reflects
I’ve been wanting to share a little about our current Hopkins poem: why I love...
March 2010
March 12, 2010
Passing the faith
A few weeks ago, I sat around with some fellow mothers discussing the great dilemma...
March 03, 2010
What I was thinking about this morning while I lay awake at 4 am, unable to go back to sleep, due to the massive amount of snot in my head.
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February 2010
February 16, 2010
Poetry, Mamas
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